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Thursday, July 29, 2010

I've seen many drawer boxes and thought that I would give it a try. They are very easy to make so I added an easel card. I thought this could make a perfect box for a chocolate lover hence the brown and beige colours. The image isn't a Christmas one, but with some glitter over the grass and the flowers it can work as one. Now when I look at it I think I'll add some more of my white glitter. And that I need to buy some more Penny Black stamps :)

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Happy Wednesday evening! This week I have a better pic of my sewing machine cover. I love to sew but I've been neglecting my sewing machine for my new hobby, card making. I have some fabrics waiting so I've been tidying up the workdesk. There's a finished card and a used stamp I'll sell. I've been moving it around for some weeks now.

And here's my ironing board aka my work desk. Some papers for a blue Christmas card, new adhesives and my small waste bin. Oh and you can see I have a magazine under the craft sheet, some of my stamps gives better images when I have this extra layer beneath when stamping.

If you want to see more work desk, visit Julia!I'll try to visit as many as I can :)

I tried to make a vintage Tilda Christmas card without the usual Christmas decorations, got a friend who doesn't do Christmas but I want to send a card to her in December.

I'm quite pleased with how this pic turned out, you can actually see the Perfect Pearls shimmer on the white card base. They are so difficult to capture on a photo. The flowers do look a much better IRL though, you can't have everything, eh?

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

I didn't come up with the idea for this card myself, I followed one of Michelle Zindorf's fab brayer tuts but used other stamps and inks.

The background is brayered with Distress Inks on Glossy Paper and I used masks to create the sun and the reflection of it. The stamps are TH and highlights are added with a white Sakura pen. The dew drops are coloured with Alco Inks to get a better colour match. The dragonfly brad is from my stash.

Monday, July 26, 2010

This week on One Layer Wednesday the theme is Christmas. Perfect for my PB tree and the Landstoken sentiment that says "Time for Advent". I had envisioned the layout and thought that this one would be an easy one layer, but it took some time and some stamping to get the colours right. In the end I used two Distress Inks for the PB stamp as one wasn't enough, it looked so lifeless. I inked the stamp with a light green and added a darker green ink by gently tapping the ink pad on the stamp. It made all the difference. Wish I could take better pics to show the difference.I coloured the bird with a black Sakura pen and added some Stickles to the image too. The card was finished with an EK Success corner rounder.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Good evening! Hope you're ready for a relaxing weekend. The weather has at last turned cooler today, only around 20 Celsius. Perfect for a paint project. I have painted an ordinary wooden frame with acrylics, then stamped on the wet paint with a TH rubber flourish. It gives a fab effect. If you don't get a good impression on the first try, just brush over it and stamp again.

Remember to use good quality stamps and to clean the rubber stamp with a damp cloth after stamping on wet acrylics.

Here's the final result, MIL created the patterned fabric and I put an Inkido butterfly there.

Happy Wednesday everyone! This time I'll show my real workdesk, it's a fab but tiny working space. I've got a box with cards ready for use and for selling (I was lucky enough to sell all my cards in June, so I need to make a lot more). A pile of papers, my Cuttlebug and my sewing machine.As you can guess I'm not working here. I'm using my ironing board as a workdesk, but not today as I need to do some ironing. Sad but true.Here's a pic of my stamp positioner! I use it for sentiments and for one layer cards.My sons have abandoned their LEGO blocks so I used a few of them to build it. I guess you can use whatever you want as a corner, some metal tools can stain the paper though. The acetate sheet is from a Spellbinder package. Love to reuse things and spend on new stamps :)

Oh, I almost forgot the link for Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday 59, it's here!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Hope you're having a fab weekend! I've had fun making this card. It was such a fab sketch to follow, easy and rewarding. After working with this card for a while I want to eat a strawberry, vanilla and chocolate ice cream. Cards do effect us in funny ways :)

Friday, July 16, 2010

At One-layer-Wednesday the challenge is to use watercolour and I do love to colour with my watercolour pens from Derwent. I usually stamp the image with inks and then colour it, this time I coloured the stamp itself with the watercolours. It was quite tricky to get enough water but not too much. I guess the card could be better, but I'm embracing imperfection this time as well as all the soft whiteness.

As usually with one layers I now have a pile with not so good cards, I'll hide the ugly stamping with decor papers and no one will ever know :)

I stamped with Penny Black's Leopard's Bane and a sentiment from Kortmakaren. It says Thank You in Swedish. I used my stamp positioner to get the text on place, this stamp is just awful to get straight by eye sight. At least I can't...

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Thought I would join the fun and show my work desk at WOYWW. As I got problems with my back I'm mostly standing when crafting and my work desk is an ironing board covered with a waxed table cloth. My messy crafting easily leaves stains. Glamorous crafting at it best :)

From the left you can see my tool box with everything I need for stamping. My IPod, love to listen to a book when crafting. Craft sheet, cutting mat and a container for beads. You can read more about the card in my earlier post. The towel to the right is for cleaning off ink from stamps and craft sheet. The jug contains small tools I often use.Here's my toolbox with all my inks. The cut out sponges are for distressing and the LEGO construction is my Stampamagic tool. I'm using it with a plain piece of acetate.

Good morning! Hope you're all doing well. We're enjoying the heat and the white nights, taking cool dips in the sea and eating ice cream. In November we'll be embedded in cold a darkness again, but that's far far away :)

Crafting is a bit slow now and my colouring skills, has gone on a vacation. Can't get the colours to work as I want. Small worries, eh?

Image is from The Greeting Farm and text is Magnolia. I used watercolour pens and a lot of Stickles. Magical Dimensions for her hair to get a shine ( her hair did turn greyish, doh). Butterfly is Spellbinders (stamped with Inkido butterfly with embossing ink) and leaves are QK (stamped with TH script). Flowers are made with QK and Cuttlebug dies. The flower and leaves did get some highlights with Liquid Pearls and the butterfly is heat embossed to get some shine.Tulle ribbon, gems and decor paper are from my stash.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Good morning! Hope you had a fab weekend and are ready for a new week. I'm ready for much more stamping. At Saturday I bought some more storage for my crafty stuff . It has multiplied since I started to make cards so some new storage will make it easier to find everything. Eventually!

This week Susan Raihala at Simplicity wants to see some fun one layered cards and the colours should reinforce the fun. This was challenging, it's easier with a spoken joke, you get the reaction at once. I love that! But I do find my chosen Magnolia stamp fun in a quiet way. Maybe not my chosen watercolours though :)

Edwin did get copper red hair and freckles and colourful clothes, he reminds me of my brother when he was young. He had the brightest copper red hair you'd ever seen...and freckles...and was always up to something ...fun.

The fab gems are KC and the text is handwritten with Sakura. The orange gems against all the whiteness makes me think about egg yolks.

I might colour the cock black instead to match the orange colour better.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

One more just for the fun of it! Followed a layout at the crop and I do believe I got everything right this time. That doesn't happen too often. Instead I went a bit too far with the Perfect Pearls gold, it was so fun but as my youngest son told me "you need to know when to stop"! He's talented at Arts :)

Stamps are Magnolia and Inkido. I used watercolour pens and Distress Inks for colouring. Decor paper and tickets are free print outs. Flowers are QK, flourish is Sizzlits and ovals are Spellbinders. Halfpearls are KC and ribbon is from my stash.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Hope you've had a good week! We've been an a small trip to a rented cottage by the seaside. Love the seaside when the weather is as hot it is now. They've been talking about a tropical heatwave coming up here. He he, tropical and Sweden are as far as they can be from each other in my mind. Anyhow, we'll need some cooling colours in the heatwave :)

Decor papers: an old Funky Fairys (sadly they don't excist any more) and one that I stamped and coloured with Distress Inks and Perfect PearlsStamps: Tilda,text and label from Magnolia, Impression Obsession for the decor paperColours: Derwent watercolour pens, Liquid Pearls, SticklesTools: Sisslitz swirl die, Spellbinders oval and butterfly, QK leaves and flower, Cuttlebug flowerRibbon, brads and dew drops are from my stash.The flowers are made by several layers of die cuts fastened with brads, sprayed with water and curled up. For the orange flower I made a paper with my acrylics and Perfect Pearls to get the wanted colour. For the smaller ones I used some small scrap pieces.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Still showing cards from the midsummer crop. We made cards with inspiration from a song. I did chose one about a local park, Haga, and its butterflies. It's a very beautiful formal park, we call it English style here :)The fab decor paper is from Websters Pages, butterflies are Inkido, text is Magnolia and half pearls are KC. The butterflies are embossed and 3D. The antennas are made by flower stems. All paper edges are distressed with Distress Inks. I cut out the banner by hand- I'm very proud of it, he he.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

I made this small book for layouts for the midsummer crop at Swedish Scrapbooking. Now I can have them all in one place, that's my hope, he he. I just need to remember to put them there. That can be troublesome as I find it much more tempting to start the make of a new card.

Decorpaper is fab Websters Pages. I stamped on it with some TH stamps. (It feels odd to stamp on a fab paper, doesn't it?) I used Distress Inks.Flourish and alphabet are Sisslitz. Green flowers are Prima. The fussy flowers are made with QK and Cuttlebug dies. Ovals are Spellbinders. Small baby blue half pearl look a likes are made with Liquid Pearls.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Love to play with my Stampscapes, but I'm less sure about glossy papers. I have tried with different inks to get a stamped image that stays without smudging if touched. I believe that receivers like to touch their cards!At least the Distress Inks works beautifully when I'm colouring. I used masks and stippled the background colours. I have added some fireflies (or they could be fairies!) and flowers with Sakura pens.Birds and sentiment are TH. Green flower is Prima. All other embellies are from my stash.

This is also one of the cards I made for the Swedish Scrapbooking crop.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Yesterday we went to the Old Town of Stockholm, it dates back to the 13th century. There were a lot of tourists enjoying the good weather, the Royal Castle and all narrow winding cobbled streets. Just as we did :)

The use of Three Crowns is an old tradition here, so I made good use of the TH crown. I stamped it with Versa Color gold and embossed it with golden embossing powder. The sentiment is also TH and stamped with Distress Ink Broken China. I believe that our forefathers had a lot of dreams that they made come true.Three golden half pearls were needed to balance the card.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Hope you're all well and comfy! I'm done with all the meetings for this week and enjoying the glorious sunshine. Mostly in the shadow or indoors at midday I might add, I'll only turn red in the sunshine even with thick layers of SPF 30.

I've gone for the clean look with this card, nice as a change. The sentiment says Happy Birthday in Swedish. My first attempt to sew the checks to create a quilt effect was very awkward, I sat there sweating, he he. But my second try was better. Sometimes the clean look is more difficult to create, with a lot of embellies you can always hide your small faults.

Image: Penny Black and KortmakarenColours: watercolour pens, Stickles for gift and grassTools: Nestabilities, sewing machinePapers are from my stash. The blue one is glossy to add more interest to the card.